"Curly Sue" > wrote in message
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> I was there for almost a week. I arrived with a cold. Imagine being
> in NO and not being able to taste anything for three days :< Is that
> hell, or what?
>
> Never made it to the French Quarter (we were in the Warehouse
> District). Eventually, I did manage to enjoy a couple of lunches.
> One of the buffets had fried alligator. I think they just fried
> chicken pieces and told us it was alligator ("Ha! Les tourists..."),
> because it tasted like chicken :>
>
> In consolation for not being able to enjoy the food to the fullest, I
> bought a small cookbook. I probably won't make anything in it but I
> needed something...
>
> If you want to see what's going on at Bourbon Street, check out the
> webcam at bigeasy.com (At this moment there is a big green garbage
> truck in the way.)

I am sorry you missed the best of the "Big Easy"...FOOD.

Poorly cooked 'gator' tastes like seriously overdone chicken,same with frog
legs. Read the cookbook If it was the one from the Junior League,"it ain't
altogeather bad." Bignettes,Muffilata,Chicory Coffee,Red Fish,Red Beans&
Rice,Fresh Oysters,Shrimp,Crawfish Etuffe, etc.are great if, you "grab a
cab" and go where the locals eat! Do NOT go there anywhere around Mardi
Gras, hit the off seasions. I know from what I speak. :-)

Hubert(ex road band musician& fan of "ethnic cuisine") Liverman

" Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!"
Sue(tm)